Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Professor Matthews, you referred to the data issue. As you well know, there are issues with sharing data within the HSE, never mind with anybody else. That is a problem. I am sure it might be an issue in the North as well but we are looking at the digitisation of records and patient numbers, etc. I take the point - I think it was Professor Heenan who made it - around AI and how we can maybe look to leapfrog over the particular gulf that exists and say that where there is a will, there is a way and we can try to find a way of communicating between the two health jurisdictions.

With regard to making progress, you mentioned a strategic framework for an all-island health committee. Who would both of you envisage sitting on that in order to get proper collaboration between those two health systems, the Departments of Health and all the various facets that are involved?